Species Antechinomys longicaudatus (Spencer, 1909)

Museums

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• Sminthopsis longicaudata Spencer, B. 1909. Description of a new species of Sminthopsis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 21: 449-451 [449] [as Sminthopsis longicaudatus].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV C7803 ♂ spirit specimen & skull, Pilbara and the desert to the east, WA.

  Type locality references:

  Glauert, L. 1950. The development of our knowledge of the marsupials of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 34: 115-134 [129-130].

Generic Combinations

• Antechinomys longicaudata (Spencer, 1909). —
  Westerman, M., Umbrello, L. & Woolley, P.A. 2023. On the composition of Antechinomys (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): how many species? Australian Journal of Zoology 70(3): 95–103

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, hummock grassland, nocturnal, predator, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Rocky places.

General References

Archer, M. 1981. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 104 Systematic revision of the marsupial dasyurid genus Sminthopsis Thomas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 168: 61-224

Burbidge, A.A., McKenzie, N.L. & Fuller, P.J. 1995. Long-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis longicaudata. pp. 146-147 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Burbidge, A.A. & McKenzie, N.L. 1976. A further record of Sminthopsis longicaudata (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Western Australian Naturalist 13: 144-145

McKenzie, N.L., Hall, N. & Muir, W.P. 2000. Non-volant mammals of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 61: 479-510

Woolley, P.A. & Valente, A. 1986. Reproduction in Sminthopsis longicaudata (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): laboratory observations. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 7-12

Young, C. 1981. Rare marsupial captured in Gibson Desert. SWANS 11(3): 3-6

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Long-tailed Dunnart)

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